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"What I have seen and heard suggests a litany of failings from the building's owners and property managers and serious safety concerns.

"I have contacted Acorn Housing and Criterion Capital to ask for a detailed explanation of how these issues will be resolved and we are exploring options for legal action if there is no progress.

"As a priority I want clarity on lift maintenance, assurances on the safety of the building's cladding and the resolution of the internal issues such as damp."

Tower block safety, Mrs Jones added, has been a big concern of hers since the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, in Kensington, in which at least 80 people died.

"I expressed concerns about these types of private housing blocks following the Grenfell tragedy," she said.

"The Government removed the powers of councils like Croydon to oversee the safety and standards of conversions from office to residential blocks under permitted development rights.

"This allows developers to bypass planning permission and it appears in some cases build substandard homes. Research by the Croydon Advertiser in 2015 found that the Canterbury House conversion would actually have been rejected under the normal planning process."

Mrs Jones said one of her priorities as the newly elected MP for Croydon Central would be to hold landlords and management companies to account when there are failings affecting tenants.

She said: "There are 67,000 people privately renting in Croydon. One of my priorities as I enter Parliament is to give those people a voice, so they can properly hold landlords and management companies to account when there are failings."

Letting agent Acorn is responsible for Canterbury House and has been approached for a comment about residents' complaints but did not want to offer one.